Catch Up Game

Well, I have some catching up to do. Luckily, its not to much!
Brandi and I went shopping at The Gateway on Friday. I have only been there once of twice and I love it there! She had the boys with her and Deklan had me laughing so hard at one point. He kept running in front of us, well there were cones on the sidewalk and he stopped looked at them, looked at us, kicked them over and ran off again. I thought I was going to die of laughter. Brandi yelled for him to come back to us. He came running back, looked at the cones and said " I should probably pick these up" picked them up and came running. The look on his face when he kicked them over was priceless. So, I told Nick I would be home about the time he came home. Oops traffic killed me! I was supposed to be home at 5:30 but I didn't get there till 7! I felt so bad...I learned not to take I-15 around 5!

Nick and I have started a new tradition also. Saturdays are sample days at Costco so we go there for lunch. I'll grab 2 of something and if we really like it then he will go and grab 2. It's amazing how samples fill you up! Then we walk around talking about how we want to open a candy store or something and how easy it would be to make a profit. I want a candy shop like in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...

Monday we were blessed with 10 inches of snow! I love the snow but hate the timing. It was a 4 day weekend for me but because of the snow Nick took his car and I was stuck home for the day. I don't mind being home its the thought that I can't leave when I want that drives me nuts. So I sat around and cleaned while watching a marathon of America's Next Top Model...when my plans were to go to the temple and to Old Navy...that changed! Oh well things got done around the place.

Nick started feeling yucky on Friday night and still isn't completely over it. Poor thing! I didn't allow him to go to work yesterday. He was so pale and had a fever. I came home early to take care of him and I knew he was feeling better when he wanted doughnuts and cupcakes. So after the BYU game we went to the gas station and got those along with energy drinks for today.

We spend most of our evenings watching tv. I have never watched as much tv in my entire life as I do now. Last night we were watching this show called "Life After People" it was really interesting. It explains what would happen to the world if we all suddenly dissappeared. What would happen to our pets? Homes? What would change in a week, a year, 5 years and so on...it tell what will happen up to 1000 years. We weren't able to watch the whole thing. It was on till 11 and we usually pass out in bed by 10. But the show is really interesting. It tells things that are pretty much common sense but you don't think about. I want to watch the last hour of it...I want to know what would happen in a 1000 years!

We are doing well though. Both working a ton and getting excited to go to Vegas in 2 weeks for my birthday and Valentine's! Since they are a week apart Nick says its not fair...but this is going to be the Best birthday present ever.....I have always wanted to go to Vegas! We are hoping around summer to go on a cruise too! Figured we can enjoy things like this before we start a family!

We love and miss everyone! Hope everyone is doing well....

Husband

I was tagged....


1-What is his name? Nicholas Scott Burt..Nick for short

2-How long have you been married? little over 2 months but its an eternity thing

3-How long did you date? 6 months then we were married...

4-How old is he? 26....I feel so young when I think he is that old!

5-Who eats more? Nick! If I ate half of what he does Id be 2 ton Nelli. The boy can eat and hides it very well!

2-Who said I love you first? Me...all I got back was a thank you! It took a few months before I heard I love you back

3-Who is smarter? Nick hands down

4-Whose temper is worse? Mine! He keeps his under control I try and Ive gotten better but still have some work to do.

5-Who does the laundry? I do...unless his mom cleans our room and then she will sometimes....wow that sounds like kids!

6-Who does the dishes? We clean up our mess but dishes...his parents dishwasher

7-Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me...No reason why. Just picked it because its by the window

8-Who pays the bills? Nick if I were to do it...Id be a basket stress case. I stress over money to much. This way I don't think about it at all

9-Who cooks dinner? We take turns...I do most of the time but if I ask him to he does. He is a wonderful cook though...I love when he makes dinner

10-Who drives when you are together? Nick...I don't think he likes the way I drive! Plus we have been using his dads car and its stick and last time I tried driving it I killed the battery!

11-Who is more stubborn? Thats a tie...

12-Whose parents do you see the most? His...Mine are in Ohio so we will see them maybe twice a year. I miss them :(

13-Who proposed? Ummm I don't think there was an actual proposal. We agreed on it and went and got the ring

14-Who has more friends? We share friends....his friends are mine also. Plus I haven't really made any of my own

15-Who has more siblings? He has 6 I have 2

16-Who wears the pants in the family? Nick...I just let him make decisions and give my opinion sometimes...


Im not going to tag anyone only because it would be Brandi and Jessica. Brandi already did this and she tagged Jessica!

HE DID IT!

Nick did the funniest thing the other night!
Nick and I were at John and Reelika's for her birthday. Nick like always, had gas.
Well, after dinner we are sitting there talking. John used a match for the birthday cake and that I think sparked something in Nick's mind. John had a phone call and left the room. Nick was sitting there playing with matches. Suddenly, he wants to know if you put a match under your bum and fart if it will really do what it does in the cartoons!
You can only guess what happened next....he farted on a match!

I swear to you it works! I saw it go KABOOM into a bigger flame. Nick felt it on his bum and I swear he was so excited about it! I was laughing so hard. I never thought for some reason that it would really work! He dropped the match when it went KABOOM and almost caught the chair on fire. Thankfully he didn't!


John comes in the room and Nick just has to try again to show him. Unfortunately, it didn't have enough gas the next time. He still talks about it. Randomly, he will be like remember the fart and the match! He gets this HUGE smile on his face. He is so proud! I was completely embarrassed but its Nick so I learn to just get over it!
I'm sure he would be more then happy to do it again. I'll have to get pictures and everything though!

Pillow Fight

Last night Nick woke me up...a little different.Usually its snoring or he has completely pushed me off the bed! Last night we had a little pillow fight.
I'm sound asleep and happy then YANK! My pillow is pulled from right under my head. I look over and Nick has a little smile on his face while he is laying on my pillow. He must of been holding both of his pillows so he grabbed mine. The fact that it scared me, I was crying a little and he just told me to be quiet and go to bed. So I roll over and keep whining saying I want my pillow back. I realize he was not giving it back. So I tried getting the pillow back from him. I pull the best I can at 1am and it's not helping at all. In fact the pillow didn't move at all. I know that Nick will eventually give the pillow back if I keep crying so I did. It lasted for a while. Finally, I think he woke up enough to realize what happened and gave the pillow back.
I wasn't to happy...I reminded him of it this morning and I guess he laughed out loud at work. I think its funny now too. Last night it wasn't even a little funny to me!

Christmas & New Years

So it's weeks after Christmas and I'm just now posting something about it! Sorry!

Christmas was interesting this year. Poor Nick was sick 2 days before Christmas. Luckily, he was feeling better by the time everyone was there. The whole family was there Christmas Eve and stayed the night. It was a change for me, but it was really nice to see everyone; all the kids running around so excited that Santa was coming that night. Christmas Eve was really nice and peaceful. We sat around eating way too much and singing Christmas songs. The kids sang songs and danced, the family talked about old Christmas memories. Christmas morning all the family opened presents from each other. Nick and I got more bake wear and picture frames... as much as we love them, we already got tons of them from the wedding! (Those were our popular gifts)
Nick and I, after spending time with family, went downstairs and had our own little Christmas. It was cute sitting by our little Charlie Brown tree, opening presents. I think we both did well with gifts for Christmas; nothing was returned and everything fit.

The day after Christmas I woke up sick, with almost exactly what Nick had, so I laid around in bed all day instead of packing. Oh well! By the 1st Nick and I were living in our bedroom. His parents needed to rent the basement out so we are living upstairs now. It's tough but its not horrible. We have a much smaller space than before, but it's less to clean for me. Amazingly, I've kept things clean with the small area!

New Years Eve we went to First Night SLC. Interesting is about the only thing I can say! It was absolutely freezing. We sat down and watched some break dancers after we walked around a little bit and then they had this fire circus thing, which we were kind of excited for. It turned out to be horrible, the people just kept doing the same thing over and over. Nick and I agreed that some of the "moves" they were doing weren't really apporiate for kids. We would look around and the kids looked completely puzzled. We weren't impressed at all. When they were finally done, we were freezing and I couldn't feel my feet and I thought my wrist was frozen! I couldn't move it at all; so we went and stood by a fire and then decided Carls Jr would be warmer, so we sat in there for a while. After a while we decided it was too cold to stay; so we went home and watched the ball drop on tv while sitting on the couch in pjs and drinking hot cocoa. We said Happy New Years to each other and watched some of the fireworks that were going on in the valley and then went to bed!

We went and saw I AM LEGEND finally! I was so excited and then I ended up leaving the moving pretty much in tears. I was so completely scared and couldn't sleep that night. The movie was good looking back on it, but my goodness, that night was horrible! We also saw JUNO and I thought that was the most amazing movie ever! I think its something that teen girls need to see. It basically shows options you have if your young and prego. It was the best movie I have seen in a long time! I recommend it to everyone!

Other than that we have been staying busy: seeing friends, going to dinner, working, shopping the normal things right? We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years...

And Im going to make another resolution right now!
Im going to post things on here when they happen....not weeks later!

Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level of Insanity

I was on myspace and a friend had this posted up on a bulletin.
Ive kinda been in a mood lately so I was wondering what it said. I was on the phone with my friend Amber reading it to her and couldn't talk I was laughing and crying so hard...

Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity...


1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With
Sunglasses on and point a Hair
Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.


2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise
Your Voice.


3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If
They Want Fries with that.


4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It
'In.'


5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks.Once
Everyone has Gotten Over their Caffeine Addictions,
Switch to Espresso.



6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks,Write 'For
Smuggling Diamonds'


7. Finish All Your sentences with 'In Accordance With
The Prophecy.'



8 Don t use any punctuation


9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.


10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat with
a serious face.


11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go.'



12. Sing Along At The Opera


13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't
Rhyme



14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And
Play tropical Sounds All Day.



15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't
Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.


16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling
Name, Rock Bottom.


17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won!,
I Won!'



18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The
Parking lot, Yelling

'Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!'



19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. 'Due To The
Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'

I think just reading this is going to help me daily...I might have to try a few though! Can you just imagine some of the reactions you would get from people?
Oh...I feel so much better!

I remembered a few things....

Nick took me to the Festival of Trees, it was so amazing!? All of the Christmas stuff; I wanted to buy one of everything. The gingerbread houses, all the trees with different themes and different sizes, Christmas baking, the singing, dancing; just everything! It was wonderful I loved it! We saw so many trees that we both wanted; of course we didn't buy anything. Also we were sitting watching ballroom dancers, and well it wasn't really ballroom dancing it was more just BLAH! It was pretty bad then they came out in salsa outfits Nick got up and said he couldn't bare to watch anymore!

Things are going great for Nick and I! We are still very much in love. He is still working for the benefits place and I'm working as a nanny of three now! We are slowly starting to look for our own place but the ones we want aren't open until February. I think we have decided that we will wait until then.

I'm still trying to learn how to be a little house wife, it's hard work! When we both are working and then get home around 5:30 I don't want to clean; and I don't like him doing it. He helps a lot, but I don't want him doing everything! So cleaning doesn't happen much before Saturday, then I try to get it all done then, I can honestly say I'm trying! I can tell it bugs Nick though because some nights he will say something along the lines of: the place looks a little messy maybe we should take time out every night to clean it. I love him so much it's cute when he does it. We both say ok and not much more happens. I'm not saying a place is a total mess but it could be better! Oh well I have my work cut out for me Saturday! ha ha

Nick's Christmas Party

Nick's Christmas Party was amazing! It was in the Joesph Smith Memorial Building and I was completely blown away. The meal of course was amazing but I was more amazed by the building. I love how Nick would tell me what kind of wood the room was made of and every little thing that you don't think is important but it's nice to know; makes me feel a little smarter.

So here is the not so great part of the night. Nick and I get there and just grabbed a table where no one else was sitting. So people are walking in and I'm meeting more people then what I can handle but none of them sit with us. Then Nick points out who the owner of the company is and a few other super important people in the company. Guess where they all decided to sit? With us. So you have the company owner and his wife, then I think some guy that use to be part owner or something and his wife. Then you have the new guy Nick and his newlywed wife me. So there are still 4 seats at the table and I just keep thinking "please someone Nick knows better sit here." Well then, the owners 2 daughters and their husbands sit with us. AMAZING! It was weird! We got up after prayer to get in line for dinner and they all just sit there; we were completely in our own little world most of the time!

After that we walked around Temple Square to see the lights and everything. I want to know who does all the lights so perfect? I'm going to hire them when we get a home! It was just amazing! The trees are completely covered and Nick pointed out even the branches touching the ground! And to think we basically just threw the lights on our little Charlie Brown tree! I love the nativity scene though. Nothing I was expecting but beautiful. I wish my parents could come out to see everything!!

So far this month has been tons of fun with decorations and Christmas parties, getting together with friends, and shopping, (which only Nick has done). I don't go useless I have someone to go with. Anyone want to go the weekend before Christmas and be crazy with me? Just a thought!

I QUIT!

So I was working for an eye doctor and loved it at first; but things were not as wonderful as they seemed. I wasn't learning quick enough, and I didn't dress the way they wanted. (Sorry I'm a newlywed and we are poor and I can't spend $500.00 a month on business clothes!) Oh and I didn't talk to people the right way!

So after a little over a month I'm done! I called off last Friday because I was sick and then come into work today and there is a 6 page paper on my desk about everything they had a problem with! They wanted me to read and sign it. It said things like you have 3 warnings about dress code violations and then you can be terminated. I had 2 at this point because well I'm not wearing business slutty clothes! That's how I see it though. So I'm reading this paper and I'm literally becoming more and more mad about things it says.

So I talked to Nick about quitting and he said wait till you have something else. I can't! Are you crazy!?

The reason I get sick every morning is because I'm stressed about my job, about everything to do with it! So I promised Nick I would have a job by Friday. Job search is on!

I cleaned and was still nice to people but mostly I spent the day looking for another job. I am quitting!

Closing time came and I wrote them a note saying thank you but things aren't working out! And left. Man it feels wonderful to not be working there anymore. I was so stressed and everything else. Now I can breathe!

Christmas Time

Nick and I went shopping with all of our Target gift cards and bought our little tree and some other decorations! I've been in such a Christmas mood I needed to finally decorate.

I love our little Charlie Brown tree. It's not much taller than me, with white lights and then red, green(all different shades), and silver bulbs; then our cute little star on top. We, of course, have a Jazz ornament on it as well. We are going to buy each other an ornament every Christmas for something to represent the past year. I guess he bought one already, doesn't love it, so if he finds something else that he loves he will use that. Me on the other hand? Haven't found a single one that I like! So much has happened this year how can I just focus on one thing?

I'm so excited to spend Christmas with him, we have been baking and watching all the Christmas cartoons on TV and everything. We were going to have an Ugly Sweater Christmas Party but somethings fell through so we aren't going to now. Sad I know.

(Kara and Brandi thank you for the Christmas stuff...we have it all out and love the stocking holders; and everything else of course! Nick loves his CD we listened to it while we were getting everything put out together. It's amazing how much you need to decorate for Christmas. Thanks for the head start.)